Patients who have lost the ability to eat by themselves often need the food to be administered directly into their mouths through enteral feedings.

Patients whose digestive systems either can't tolerate or can't absorb food properly are ideal candidates for parenteral nutrition.

Gastric ulcers are painful sores in the stomach lining, also called peptic ulcers. Gastric ulcers are a particular type of peptic ulcer disease.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic disease that causes inflammation of the digestive tract.